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PeopleSoft CEO: Oracle saga is over: The CEO of PeopleSoft is claiming that the Oracle bid is dead in the water. "As far as Conway is concerned, Oracle lost steam in July, after PeopleSoft sealed its $1.8 billion purchase of J.D Edwards. Oracle had initially wished to stop that deal, ...

PeopleSoft Offers Oracle Poison: (second story down). A "poison pill" is a move to make your company worth less to a buyer. PeopleSoft just swallowed one to try and fend off Oracle: "PeopleSoft said over half those sales would come from contracts covered by a new customer protection program that ...

Connecticut joins Oracle fracas: It's like a soap opera. Connecticut's attorney general announced Wednesday that he plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Oracle, seeking to defeat the company's proposed buyout of rival PeopleSoft. We count four lawsuits now: Oracle v. PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft v. Oracle, J.D. Edwards v. Oracle, and ...

PeopleSoft investors want more cash | CNET News.com: PeopleSoft's big investors tell Larry how much it will take: "Institutional investors say they would want to see an offer well in excess of $20 a share before they consider tendering their stock to Oracle."

Oracle confirms bid for bigger PeopleSoft | CNET News.com: Since PeopleSoft has swallowed J.D. Edwards, it's become a little fatter for the feast. Consequently, Larry coughed up another billion. "Oracle reaffirmed its bid to acquire PeopleSoft Thursday, following the successful completion of PeopleSoft's offer for J.D. Edwards last week that ...

What's Larry going to do?: An short look at the status of the Oracle / PeopleSoft imbroglio, and the obstacles that Oracle faces. In my opinion, it's looking more and more like this isn't going to happen. There are two many issues outstanding. "It's decision time for Oracle and Larry ...

Justice lawyers against Oracle's bid for PeopleSoft: This throws a wrench in the gears. Justice Department lawyers are recommending that Oracle's (ORCL) hostile takeover bid for business software rival PeopleSoft (PSFT) be blocked for antitrust reasons, a step that could kill the proposed $9.4 billion deal before shareholders get a ...

PeopleSoft's Board Rejects Oracle's Second Bid: Last time they had two issues: price and anti-trust concerns. With Larry's new bid, they just have one: "PeopleSoft Inc. on Friday urged stockholders to reject Oracle Corp.'s unsolicited $6.3 billion takeover offer, citing the possibility of regulatory objections to the deal between the ...

Oracle lowers PeopleSoft bid to $7.7 billion: After raising the bid twice, (the last time just two months ago and that coming just four months after saying they weren't going any higher), they're now lowering it. I can't even speculate on the implications of this. Business software maker Oracle ...

Ringside at PeopleSoft Bout, SAP Hopes to Share in the Prize: Good article about how SAP is trying to poach customers from the Oracle / Peoplesoft mess. "By positioning itself as a safe haven, SAP hopes to pick up the storm-tossed customers of its three main competitors, Oracle, PeopleSoft and ...

Oracle ups PeopleSoft offer: Larry's not messing around. The offer is up from $16 to $19.50. Analysts were saying that they'd need at least $20 per share to make it happen. And, not surprisingly, Oracle has filed a lawsuit against PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards for resisting the takeover attempt. Oracle ...

Oracle May Drop PeopleSoft Bid Over Refund Offer: Looks like PeopleSoft's poison pill may succeed in the end. "Oracle Corp. says it may be forced to abandon its hostile $7.3 billion bid for PeopleSoft Inc. if the Pleasanton, Calif., software company continues to offer its customers licensing-fee refunds in the ...

PeopleSoft Turns Down Latest Bid By Oracle: PeopleSoft stock closed at about $22-and-a-quarter yesterday, so $26 a share is a nice premium. How long can they keep saying no? PeopleSoft Inc. yesterday rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.4 billion hostile takeover bid, saying the $26-a-share offer is too low and expressing serious ...

Software maker Oracle raises bid for PeopleSoft: We haven't talked about this one in quite a while, but it's still on the table. Business software maker Oracle Corp. raised its hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. by 33 percent to $26 per share today. This is the second rasing ...

Ellison 'determined' to acquire PeopleSoft: According to Larry, it's not over yet. "Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison repeated on Tuesday his determination to acquire rival PeopleSoft, but was cagey about whether he would raise the offer price of his hostile takeover bid. Questioned on Tuesday about whether Oracle could acquire ...

Oracle wins right to pursue rival: PeopleSoft may have played their last hand: Ellison and Henley wasted no time in firing off a letter to PeopleSoft's board, requesting a meeting to hammer out a deal, potentially the largest tech merger since Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer in 2002. We started covering ...

PeopleSoft gives in, accepts Oracle's $10.3B bid: I knew Larry would get what he wanted eventually. Ending 18 months of bad blood, Oracle is snapping up bitter rival PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion to create the world's second largest maker of business applications software. I wonder how long it will take ...

States Consider Fight Against Oracle's Bid for PeopleSoft: Because, you know, there just weren't enough lawsuits. "Looking to put additional pressure on Oracle Corp. to halt its hostile takeover bid of enterprise software rival PeopleSoft Inc., Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has contacted every state in the union asking them ...

Microsoft Holding Onto Stockpile: Microsoft is sitting on $62 billion in cash and investments. That's billion....with a "B." "In an unusual move, Connors detailed exactly how Microsoft's cash and reserves are broken down. Its total portfolio of $62.7 billion is made up of a treasury-managed portfolio of $53.5 billion, with ...

Sun Sets Sights on IBM's AIX Customers: In the SCO/IBM drama, Sun is playing the role that SAP is playing in the Oracle/PeopleSoft production: Moving to profit from SCO Group's revocation of IBM's Unix license (which IBM denies SCO has the right to do), Sun Microsystems charged in to play ...

The Justice Department is moving to block Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, I suppose arguing that it would create a sort of CRM monopoly. Charles Cooper seems to think Larry Ellison is reaping what he's sown: Setting aside the question of whether Uncle Sam has a case or not, Gates surely ...

Oracle says it won't raise bid: More twists and turns than a soap opera. "An Oracle executive said Wednesday that it's unlikely the company would raise its $7.25 billion unsolicited bid for rival PeopleSoft before regulators weigh in on the deal, if ever."

PeopleSoft Acquires J.D. Edwards: This part is done, which may or may not just fatten the calf for the Oracle butcher. It's like the picture of the little fish about to get eaten by the bigger fish, which is, in turn, about to get eaten by a shark.

Microsoft Extends SQL Server Reach: This is cool, though only SQL geeks would care. "Microsoft Corp. will extend the distributed capabilities of its SQL Server 2000 database to over 50 popular, proprietary databases and packaged applications, such as SAP R/3, SAP BW, J.D. Edwards, Siebel and PeopleSoft." Now they just ...

Here's a question on blogging practice: what do you do for follow-up posts or updates to an existing post? Do you make a new post? Update the original post? Post a comment? I have examples of all three options so far, and I have yet to figure out which one ...

Study: Oracle's Takeover Bid Could Hurt Sales: Public opinion of Oracle is sliding. "The study, Techtel Corp.'s Technology Demand Index, released on Wednesday, showed that positive opinion of Oracle within the approximately 800 companies surveyed fell from 59.8 percent to 57.2 percent, and its negative opinion increased from 14.5 percent ...

I installed Refer from Textism a few weeks ago, and it's awfully interesting to see where all your visitors are coming from. Something else I find interesting are entries like this: 127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/news This is the referrer of someone monitoring the site in Radio Userland. Userland runs locally on port 5335, ...

SCO Mobilizes for IBM Unix Battle: Between this and the Oracle/PeopleSoft imbroglio, enterprise IT has become a soap opera lately: SCO will seek to stop IBM from selling its version of Unix, AIX, which has been shipping since 1990 and accounted for 15 percent of all Unix server operating system ...

Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites: The new version of Symatec's Internet Security 2004 has filtering software that will block most pro-gun and gun-rights sites under the category of "weapons." This includes all of the NRA's Web site. "My rather informal test still raises the spectre that a large corporate ...

The Daily WTF for today describes my own personal version of Hell, and it turns out that not only does it exist right here on Earth, but they're hiring: Information and tools to analyze data and administer policies reside in 3 Microsoft Access databases. One of the databases has a ...

That post I made about attribion got me thinking about the format and content of blog postings. The way I see it, there are basically three types of postings. Original Content, No Target This is where you actually write something yourself, and there's no "target" of the post no ...

We've been tossing around the idea of applying a business model to Gadgetopia for quite some time now. Don't get us wrong, this is fun and all, but it takes time and there's always the nagging desire to "take it to the next level," to overuse a cliche. However, I ...

Here's the problem with taxonomies and content categorization schemes: no one will maintain them. You can set up the greatest content tree or grouping structure in the world, but sooner or later, content authors (yourself included) are going to get complacent. That's because the value-add is on the reader's end ...